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For example, I like Opera's tab (hey, I know, but I had only used IE up to that point) interface. I like that Mozilla's "View source" does syntax highlighting. I like the side panels in both. I like the "Save as" web archive feature in IE.
I thought it would be useful to gather in one place the nifty features of various browsers that make your browsing more efficient, your developing more streamlined, or just are plain cool and/or fun.
When you mention a feature, please also explain how to access it, and why it is so cool (sometimes I don't know enough to know why I should be impressed :) ).
And please, try to avoid the "browsers war" mentality.
Thats all i know :) I dont use other browsers.
1. Still seems the best for laptop users or people without an always-on connection due to good off line reading features.
2. Came free with my ISP set up disk so i didnt have to spend all night downloading a browser on a 33.6 connection.
3. 90% of our users use it, so generally i see what 90% of our users see. Still test with other browsers, but as a regular browser i tend to use what most of our site visitors use so i can experience the same as our users.
Patrick
Tabs
PopUp killer
Fast
extensions.
middle-click links to new tab.
huzzah.
Being able to add site specific search boxes (by editing the ini file - theres a little app that you can use to do it too).
Notes.
The Neanderthal7 skin - I love having a little yellow bone for a scroll bar ;)
Nick_W's spiffy WebmasterWorld menu tab.
addedd ->
Opera - mouse gestures
omg! I didn't know about that. very cool.
When you also easily can add/remove/move all buttons&toolbars the way YOU want this makes Opera THE most user configurable browser! Your mom AND her mom can do it without problems! :)
Ad-removal with userContent.css - no more ads cluttering up the sites I visit.
The edit/test styles bookmarklet from Squarefree - this has made an amazing addition to my web-editing afforts by allowing me to edit or add css and see the results in real time. Really useful when you're "debugging" a layout or helping other people with theirs.
Middle-click-world - middle click to open a link in a new tab. Middle click the tab to close it. This one button interface speeds up your browsing experience no end (especially on forums, where it's a boon).
Drag and drop toolbar/button editing -simple.
I like the "Save as" web archive feature in IE.
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Why do people seem to think you can only do that in IE? It definately also works very well in Netscape, and it also works in Firebird and most likely many other browsers.
Photon means the ability to save the entire page (images and all) as one multipart file in a .mht "web archive" - you can do this in Internet Explorer if you have Outlook/Outlook Express installed. Firebird 0.6.1 doesn't have this feature, afaik (well, I can't find it ;-)).
Jordan
- One-click WHOIS
- Display own IP
- Opera mouse gestures
- Tabs
- Groups - Open group of pages on start-up or selection.
- CTRL+G opens tabbed note-taker
- Auto-form filler
- Access hard drives
- Calculator
- One-click page translation
- Auto-scrolling
- Open frequently used external apps
- Drag word off page into address bar auto-queries Google <--very handy!
- Query multiple SE's
- Recover last pages if PC crashes <-- very handy
- Pop-up and banner ad blocker
- List all links in page
...blah blah blah...
[edited by: TheWhippinpost at 9:49 am (utc) on Aug. 15, 2003]
Photon means the ability to save the entire page (images and all) as one multipart file in a .mht "web archive" - you can do this in Internet Explorer if you have Outlook/Outlook Express installed. Firebird 0.6.1 doesn't have this feature, afaik (well, I can't find it ;-)).
Jordan
Well, in most other browsers, if you do a save as, it will save the HTML page, images, external CSS files etc. all at once, just not as an .mht file --- what are the benefits of .mht files any way?
You have the entire web-page in one file, so there's less clutter - it's good if you want to keep a local copy of pages for reference (or you want to send them to someone), as you don't end up with a lot of "pagename_files" folders.
That's exactly what I meant. I like to save some web pages for further study--particularly those which may change fairly frequently. Having just the one file instead of as many as twenty or thirty files to keep track of is a huge advantage in my book.
Fortunately, using the W3-Dev menu add-on for Opera, I can quickly open those pages I want to archive in IE. Unfortunately, though Opera will open .mht files, it's not pretty.
And the W3-Dev and Nick_W's WebmasterWorld add-on menus are another reason I like Opera.
Tabs but with IE engine
Can't read a thing unless your charset is in Chinese, always a nice feature
Seems to have been installed as default browser in some magical unchangable way!
Jordan
- IE rendering engine
- Tabbed browsing (add tab to group, to fav, close all but active, close all, lock...)
- Save groups of tabs like favorites
- startup with blank, homepage, group, or last opened pages
- clear history, cookies, tempfiles from menu (no need to go through options)
- popup-blocker - customizable
- mail and news integrated with OE/outlook like in IE
- per page settings for disable images, videos, background sound, scripts, applets, etc..
- settings are remembered
- disable status bar text messages (JS)
- file-saving: save all, save html only, save all opened tabs
- open all urls in a text file with urls - and save tab to specific list
- auto-refresh of pages (intervals + disable)
- slide show of opened tabs
- translation using specified engine (eg babelfish)
- domain completion (alt+enter and such)
- use of web proxy
- undo closed tabs (last 26)
- and then there's all the traditional IE features as well, plus a few i forgot to mention.
Googlewise it does not support the toolbar though - i use IE for that, which also makes me aware of when i'm sending info to big G and when i'm not. Oh, searching from the address bar: i do this as well - it's inherited from the toolbar, just enter "some long phrase".
Oh, and then there's this little geeky thing on the "blank" page: Popups Blocked: 3125
/claus
There's also a very handy "search in favorites" tool as well, and the G Toolbar rightclick options are also supported.
